Linda, Thank you! No it’s not cubism – the “box” you see around the sketch is how the teacher showed us to get the features in alignment. Since it’s a live model it helps to envision it as best as possible as 3-dimensions. The box helps to do that. I’m learning!!

Jacqui,
thanks for the “amazing”!!!! It’s more like a human face because we had a live model. I think that copying pictures from other 2-dimensional photos – although great drawing exercises – tends to make the drawings flatter.

Chuck,
You are very kind. I have some talent but if you saw some of the other student’s work . . . Maybe with more practice I could get there. Thank you for your encouragement. I’ve never really had any and consequently have never taken anything I’ve done artistically very seriously.

Shari,
I took two beginning art classes in college (one my freshman year and one my senior year), 2 from junior colleges over 10 years ago, which I never finished because they were too hard. However, I remember being able to draw Albert Einstein from a photo for a report and copy a scene in chalk from a magazine onto the school room wall. I think I must have had talent as a child but it was never encouraged because art wasn’t a profession and all artists were “starving”.

Peggy Arndt

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Sometimes I share my journey with multiple heart arrhythmias & fibromyalgia. Having lived with these life altering contions has curiously turned out to be blessings (not that I ever asked to be blessed in these ways . . .).

These conditions continuously teach me life's lessons about my physical body, my emotional mind and my spiritual being (not that I originally THOUGHT I needed these kind of lessons).